> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > startx > somefile 2>&1 && init 3
> && init 3 didn't recover me - I missed the redirect when I scanned
> this mail before.. I'll try the redirect and || momentarily and post
> my results (I think || has more chance of recovering than && by the
> way: it will execute init if startx crashes, whereas && will only run
> init if Xorg exits with no error).
Why not just use
startx >somefile 2>&1 ; init 3
The ";" means that the second command will always be executed after the
first, regardless of the first's exit status.
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